Tag: art

DIY Christmas Tree

Pen and ink sketch by Mattias Adolfsson (2025).

The Beer and The Mountain

[Poster by Kyle Mertz (2020) found here.]

Belonephobic Hot Links

Help Me Make Up My Mind, Joyce Jones (1969) Born in Mississippi in 1949, Joyce Jones, (along with Reginald Hinesinger) wrote Help Me Make Up My Mind as an answer song to Tyrone Davis‘ Can I Change My Mind (1969). Jones was a member of the Philadelphia soul/disco group First Choice from 1972-75.

Elf rock.

Horrorbot.

These toys.

Solargraphs.

Snow graffiti.

These doggos.

A new chicken.

Not Even Once.

Westgate Bridge.

7 December 1941.

Cloud Dancer won.

Analyzing Peanuts.

Movie Title Breakup.

Trash Panda Nights.

Drug trade cowboys.

Carol of the Mosquitos.

Guy picks squirrel ticks.

George Burns’ great grandson?

Hadzabe man shares an anecdote.

LBJ’s pants [via Everlasting Blört].

Steve Cropper: The Green Onions story.

Diet culture in the parking meters [via Thompson, blog].

55 times Mother Nature threw a hissy [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: The Lobster Wars, illustration by Maxfield Parrish, cover lining from Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field (1904) found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Apollo was a Frog

Coloured etchings by Christian von Mechel showing “stages from the frog to the profile of Apollo”, after the ideas of Johann Caspar Lavater, 1797

“The etchings above, commissioned by Lavater from the Swiss printmaker Christian von Mechel (1737–1817), put the physiognomist’s ideas into color and motion. Across twenty-four frames, the profile of an unassuming amphibian slowly metamorphs into that of Apollo (considered the epitome of masculine beauty). At its core, Lavater’s physiognomy relies on the belief that a creature’s true character and morality can be discerned from their “lines of countenance”, often revealed by analyzing silhouettes. In many ways, he spent his career trying to offer scientific proof of the ancient Greek concept known as kalokagathia — that goodness manifests as beauty, evil as ugliness — the focus of his greatest-known work, the four-volume Physiognomische Fragmente (1775–1778).”

[Etchings and description found here. The .gif was created in my kitchen of wonder.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 931 – Do The Mr. Happy, Do The Locomotion & Do The Jerk Now

[Found here, here and here.]

Storm the Transformed Ninja

Henshin Ninja Arashi (変身忍者 嵐, roughly translated as “Storm the Transformed Ninja”) is a 1972 Jidaigeki Toku series created by Shotaro Ishinomori.

“Set in the Edo Period of Japan, the series follows a young ninja named Hayate, who is the son of a man who developed a special technique called the “Transformation Jutsu” capable of granting a superhuman form. However, their Ninja clan, the warmongering Blood Wheel Clan, begins using the Transformation Jutsu to spread fear and terror all throughout Japan as part of their campaign to conquer it.”

[Found here via here. More about him here.]

“Hey, Charlie… hey, Charlie wake up…”

[Image refers to this viral classic animation and was screencapped from the final scene of this AI reel.  h/t Charlene J.]

workshop

The workshop of Petr Válek. He makes music and ringtones too.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Sure, why not…

[Found here.]